MURDER OF GIULIO REGENI

15 January 1988: Giulio Regeni was born

7 January 2016: Cairo police had received a report on Giulio Regeni

25 January 2016: Giulio Regeni disappeared

3 February 2016: discovery of the body

24 February 2016: Amnesty International Italy launched a campaign "Verità per Giulio Regeni" (Truth about Giulio Regeni)

1March 2016: Italian and Egyptian officials conducted separate autopsies on Regeni's corpse with an Egyptian forensic official

10 March 2016: the European Parliament in Strasbourg passed a motion for a resolution condemning the torture and killing of Giulio Regeni and the ongoing human rights abuses of the al-Sisi government in Egypt

24 March 2016: Egyptian National Security Agency blamed captain Mahmud Hendy and other people of the local police

21 April 2016: Reuters reported three Egyptian intelligence officials and three police sources independently claiming Regeni was in police custody at some time before his death

7 June 2016: the Italian weekly L'Espresso reported that Regeni's tutor Maha Abdelrahman had followed advice from University lawyers not to collaborate with the inquest

8 June 2016: Italian news agency ANSA reported that Regeni's tutors at Cambridge University had declined to collaborate with the inquest into his murder, to the disappointment of investigators and Regeni's family

1 November 2016: Regeni's passport and the other documents were handed over to Italian prosecutors during a "positive" meeting in Cairo

7 December 2016: a joint statement of Egyptian and Italian prosecutors, released following a two-day summit in Rome

25 January 2017: first anniversary of his disappearance, thousands of people gathered to remember Giulio Regeni in Rome, Milano, Fiumicello, and other Italian towns

1 May 2017: Pope Francis confirmed that the Vatican is taking steps to investigate the situation

15 August 2017: journalist Declan Walsh collected in a New York Times article the statement of an anonymous Obama administration official who revealed that, in the weeks after Regeni's death, the United States acquired "explosive proof that Egyptian security officials had abducted, tortured and killed Regeni" and that "Egypt's leadership was fully aware of the [death] circumstances"

21 December 2017: the Italian investigators led by Giuseppe Pignatone flew to Cairo to meet the Egyptian prosecutor Nabel Sadek and his team